The Timken Company Global Privacy Notice
PRIVACY NOTICE
Where European Economic Area (āEEAā) data protection laws apply to the processing of your personal information, please click here for further information, including relating to your specific privacy rights.
The Timken Company and its global affiliates identified at the end of this notice (āTimken,ā āus,ā āwe,ā or āourā) collect and process information about you as described in this Notice. Timken is committed to protecting the privacy of those with whom it interacts. This Privacy Notice (āNoticeā) contains details about how Timken collects, uses, and shares personal information that we obtain from and about you when you interact with Timken. Please read this Notice carefully.
Much of this statement applies globally, but certain parts apply only when expressly required by local law, such as the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (āGDPRā), which is the data protection and privacy regulation that applies in the European Union (āEUā) and the EEA, and the Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (āPIPLā), which applies to the mainland of the People’s Republic of China (excluding the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the PRC, the Macao Special Administrative Region of the PRC and the Taiwan region of the PRC, hereinafter referred to as āChinaā).
Applicability: This Notice applies to personal information about individuals with whom we interact in the conduct of our business, such as individuals who visit one of the websites we operate or who are employed by or associated with one of our vendors, customers, or other business partners. This Notice does not apply to Timken employees or job applicants, or to participants under employee benefit plans offered by Timken.
When you interact with Timken on behalf of another individual or entity, such as by providing or accessing personal information about another individual, you represent that your interactions and exchanges comply with applicable data protection laws. You are solely responsibility for any violation of privacy laws resulting from a failure to inform the other individual about how their personal information will be processed or to obtain any necessary consent from the individual.
Changes: Timken may update this Notice from time to time. The current Notice will be effective when posted. Please check this Notice periodically for updates. If any of the changes are unacceptable to you, you should cease interacting with Timken. When required under applicable law, we will notify you of any changes to this Notice.
Sections
- What Information Do We Collect?
- How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
- With Whom Do We Share Your Information?
- Data Security and Retention
- Childrenās Privacy
- External Links
- Terms of Use
- Contact Info/Your Choices
- EEA Data Protection Laws Section
- International Transfers of Your Personal Information
- Your Privacy Rights
- How We Use Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Tools
1. What Information Do We Collect?
Personal information refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person or household (āData Subjectā).
Sources of Personal Information:
We collect information about you and how you interact with Timken in several ways depending on the nature of those interactions, including:
- Information you provide to us directly. We collect the information you provide to us directly, for example when you provide your contact information in person, in an email or letter, or on a web form.
- Information automatically collected or inferred from your interactions with Timken. We automatically collect technical information about your interactions with Timken, such as IP address and browsing preferences when you use one of our websites.
- Information from third parties. We may receive information about you and your interactions with Timken from third parties, such as your employer or coworkers, third party service and content providers, companies that provide or sell lists of potential purchasers, and others interacting with Timken.
We may combine information that we receive from the various sources described in this Notice, including third party sources and public sources (e.g., information you submit in a public forum), with personal information we collect independently and then use or disclose it for the purposes identified below.
Information We Collect:
The personal information that Timken may collect about you includes:
- Identifiers, such as your name, alias, postal address, country of residence, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, phone number, social media identifiers (e.g., Twitter handle, Instagram name, etc.).
- Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as your browsing history, search history, information regarding your interactions with Timken (including interacting with Timken online, by mobile application, and through advertisements), and geolocation information, such as longitude and latitude.
- Professional, employment, or education information, such as your job position, job title, business address, employment history, and other professional information.
- Inferences drawn from any of the personal information we collect to create a profile about you reflecting your preferences.
We do not collect all of these types of personal information in all cases, or use the same scope of personal information for all types of individuals or uses.
2. How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
We will only process your personal information where there is a lawful basis (e.g., your consent) and where it complies with local law. We may use your information in several ways, including:
- To enable interactions between you and Timken, such as to facilitate our purchase or sale of goods and services and generally to conduct our business, to support you and the organization with which you are associated in your interactions with Timken, to diagnose, repair and track service and quality issues, to facilitate an order, download, return, or exchange, to provide requested product information, to communicate with you about your employerās account or regarding additional uses of your personal information beyond the scope of this list, to authenticate persons who interact with Timken, and to respond to your requests, complaints, and inquiries.
- For our own internal business purposes, such as to evaluate or audit the use, performance and safety of programs and technologies related to interactions with Timken, to evaluate and improve the quality of your interactions with Timken, to design new products and services, process and catalog your responses to surveys or questionnaires, to conduct data analysis and testing, and to maintain proper business and other relevant records.
- For legal, safety or security reasons, such as to comply with legal requirements, to protect the safety, property, and rights of Timken, those who interact with Timken, and others, and to detect, prevent, and respond to security incidents or other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
- For marketing, such as to market our products and services or those of third parties, to conduct marketing surveys, questionnaires, promotions, events and contests, to enhance our content, and to potentially send you commercial emails (subject to compliance with applicable laws).
- In an anonymized or aggregated format, that is, in a way that does not identify you, for any purpose.
- For any other purpose that is compatible with the foregoing or for which you provide consent.
3. With Whom Do We Share Your Information?
We may share your personal information with persons and entities other than the Timken entity that originally collected it, including the categories of recipients described below.
- Affiliates and subsidiaries: We may share your personal information within the Timken group of companies (corporate parents, corporate affiliates, subsidiaries, business units and other companies that share common ownership) for the purposes described above.
- Third party service providers: We may share your personal information with third party service providers working on behalf of Timken to facilitate an interaction with Timken that you request or to support our relationship with you and the business partner with whom you are associated. Examples of these providers include hosting service providers, IT systems and service providers, analytics companies, and marketing providers. We may contract with other companies to provide certain services, including shipping, identity verification, email distribution, market research, promotions management, and payment processing. We provide these companies with only the information they need to perform their services and work with them to ensure that your privacy is respected and protected.
- Business Partners: We may also share your personal information with certain business partners, such as our authorized distributors.
- For legal, security and safety purposes: We may share your personal information with law enforcement or other government agencies to comply with law or legal requirements, to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, and to protect our rights and the property or safety of Timken, our business partners, and third parties.
- In connection with a transaction: If we, or some or all of our assets, merge or are acquired by another entity, including through a sale, we will share your personal information with that entity.
- Your employer or coworkers: If you interact with Timken in connection with your employment, your employer, coworkers, or other individuals designated by your employer may view any personal information that we collect in connection with your use of or interaction with Timken.
Timken does not sell your personal information. We also do not sell any information of minors under the age of 16 without their authorization.
We may also anonymize or aggregate personal information to share with third parties for any purpose.
4. Data Security and Retention
Timken maintains appropriate security procedures and technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, disclosure, alteration, or use.
Timken retains personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the stated purpose for which the personal information was collected or otherwise processed, and thereafter only for legitimate legal or business purposes, such as (i)Ā where mandated by law, contract or similar obligations applicable to Timkenās business operations, (ii) for preserving, resolving, defending or enforcing our legal/contractual rights, and (iii) when needed to maintain adequate and accurate business and financial records. We will delete personal information as soon as the respective purpose for its use is complete and no requirement to retain it for any of the purposes described above remains, except as permitted or required by applicable law.
5. Childrenās Privacy
Interactions with Timken are intended for individuals 16 years of age and older. Timkenās interactions are not directed at, marketed to, or intended for children under 16 years of age. Timken does not knowingly collect any information, including personal information, from children under 16 years of age. If you believe that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under the age of 16, please contact us at the contact information set out in Section 8 āContact Info/Your Choicesā below and we will use reasonable efforts to delete the childās information from our databases.
Where the PIPL applies, Timken does not knowingly collect any personal information, including sensitive personal information, from minors under 14 years of age. If you believe that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a minor under the age of 14, please contact us at the contact information set out in Section 8 āContact Info/Your Choicesā below and we will use reasonable efforts to delete the childās information from our databases.
6. External Links
When interacting with Timken you may encounter links to external sites or other online services, including those embedded in third party advertisements or sponsor information, that are not controlled by Timken. Timken is not responsible for the privacy practices and data collection policies for those services. You should consult the privacy statements of those services for details.
7. Terms of Use
The Terms of Use for interactions with Timken is incorporated by reference into this Notice, and can be found at the link.
8. Contact Info/Your Choices
If you have questions regarding this Notice, please contact Timken at:
| EMAIL: | DataPrivacyOffice@Timken.com |
| PHONE: | +1-234-262-2207 866-846-5369 (toll-free in the U.S.) |
| MAIL: | The Timken Company Data Privacy Office/Legal 4500 Mount Pleasant Street NW North Canton, Ohio 44720 USA |
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9. EEA Data Protection Laws Section
This section applies where EEA data protection laws apply to our processing of your personal information. In the event of a conflict between information in this section and the rest of the Notice, this EEA Section will govern.
Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information as data controllers will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. In many cases, we will process personal information about you using the following legal basis:
- Legitimate interest ā we process personal information to meet our legitimate business interests, such as to develop and improve our products and services, support our sales and business operations, and secure our systems, facilities and personnel.
- Legal obligation ā we process personal information to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
- Performance of agreement ā we process personal information to perform or fulfill our obligations under an agreement with your employer or other business partner with which you are affiliated.
- Consent ā we may process your personal information based on consent; when this is the case, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the information in the āContact Usā Section above.
10. International Transfers of Your Personal Information
By interacting with Timken or providing personal information to Timken, your personal information is transferred to the United States where Timken is headquartered (for some or all of the purposes described in this Notice above). In addition, the affiliated and non-affiliated third parties with whom we share the personal information are located in a variety of different countries. If you are not a resident of the United States, your countryās laws governing data collection and use may differ from those in the United States. For example, the data protection laws of the United States have not been found by the European Commission to provide the same level of protection as EU data protection law. Transfers to countries outside the EEA take place using an acceptable data transfer mechanism, such as the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, Binding Corporate Rules, approved Codes of Conduct and Certifications, or on the basis of permissible statutory derogations. Please contact DataPrivacyOffice@Timken.com, if you want to receive further information or, where available, a copy of the relevant data transfer mechanism.
If you are located in China and where the PIPL applies, given that Timken is a global organization with offices and operations throughout the world and for the purpose of using global IT resources to conduct global unified business partner management and customer management, we may transfer your personal information (if you are a vendor contact, the personal information transferred includes your name, phone number and email address; if you are a customer contact/potential customer contact, the personal information transferred includes your name, phone number, email address and your job position) outside of China to The Timken Company (its contact information and the way to exercise your right against such overseas data recipient is DataPrivacyOffice@Timken.com, its registered office address is 4500 Mount Pleasant Street NW, North Canton, Ohio 44720, U.S.A.). The overseas recipient, The Timken Company, may need to collect, process, retain and entrust third party to process your personal information. For cross-border transfer of your personal information, you may also contact us to exercise the personal information subject rights granted to you under the applicable data protection laws (including but not limited to PIPL), including the right to delete your personal information.
11. Your Privacy Rights
If you are interacting with Timken from the EEA or where EEA data protection laws apply, with certain legal exceptions and limitations, you may exercise the following rights regarding your personal information:
Access. You have the right to confirm with us if your personal information is being processed and certain other information about that processing, in addition to obtaining a copy of that personal information.
Rectification. You have the right to request the rectification of inaccurate personal information and to have incomplete personal information completed.
Objection. Where we are processing your personal information on the basis of our legitimate interests, you can ask us to stop processing it and we must do so unless we believe we have an overriding legitimate reason to continue processing your personal information, or we need to process it for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. In addition, you have the right to object at any time if your personal information is processed for direct marketing purposes.
Portability. You may receive personal information that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit that data to others or to ask us to do this.
Restriction. You may request to restrict processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, for example if you want to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
Erasure. You may request to erase your personal information in certain circumstances, for example, where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it, or where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see above).
Right to lodge a complaint. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your data protection regulator and we will work with them to resolve it. We would, however, appreciate the chance to address your concerns before you approach the data protection regulator, and so encourage you to contact us in the first instance.
Right to refuse or withdraw consent. Please note that in case we ask for your consent to process your personal information, you are free to refuse to give consent and you can withdraw your consent at any time. Where you withdraw consent, we will stop using it for the specific purpose, unless we have an alternative legal basis to use it.
Right not to be subject to automatic decision-making, including profiling.
Where the PIPL applies, such as when your personal information is processed by a Timken company based in China, you have a number of rights. These rights include:
Right of access. You have the right to review a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to be given details of how it is processed.
Right to rectification. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and complete. However, you have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate personal information we hold about you amended if you believe it is incorrect.
Right to erasure. You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information, for example, if the personal information we have collected is no longer necessary for the original purpose, the personal information is out of date, or you withdraw your consent (if we are processing your personal information based on your consent). However, this needs to be balanced against other factors. For example, we may not be able to fulfill your request due to certain legal or regulatory obligations.
Right to transfer data. You have the right to request that we transfer the personal information you provide to us to a third party of your choice. Please note this right can only be exercised in certain circumstances as set out in applicable data protection laws.
Right to withdraw consent. In certain circumstances, we may ask for your consent to process your personal information. When we do so, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. We will cease further processing as soon as possible after you withdraw your consent. However, this does not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the withdrawal of consent.
Any other statutory rights granted under the PIPL.
If you have questions about exercising any of your rights or whether they apply to a particular processing activity, you may contact us at DataPrivacyOffice@Timken.com.
12. How We Use Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Tools
Our Websites
Our websites use cookies and automatic data collection tools. For more details, please see our Cookie Policy.
Online Advertising
Timken advertises on the websites of third parties. These third parties may use cookies or tools to gather information about your browsing activities to provide advertising relevant to your interests.
You can manage your receipt of targeted advertising by visiting these sites:
in the EU, https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
in the U.S. and other regions, https://youradchoices.com/control
Marketing Communications
We provide digital marketing communications about Timken with an unsubscribe mechanism in each communication. You can unsubscribe from any particular communication by clicking on āunsubscribeā in the email itself.
List of Applicable Timken Affiliates
| AIPCF V Feeder CTP Belt, LLC | PT Tech Europe, Ltd |
| American Roller Bearing Inc. | PT Tech, LLC |
| Apiary Investments Holdings Limited | PT Timken Bearings Indonesia |
| Australian Timken Proprietary Limited | Rail Bearing Service LLC |
| Bearing Inspection, Inc. | R+L Hydraulics GmbH |
| BEKA-BETEILIGUNGS GMBH | RMF Operations B.V. |
| BEKA Japan Co., Ltd. | RMF Systems B.V. |
| BEKA Lubrication Systems (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. | Rollon Corporation |
| Bekaworld Singapore Pte., Ltd. | Rollon GmbH |
| British Timken Limited | Rollon India Pvt. Ltd. |
| Chiavette Unificate SRL | Rollon Japan KK |
| Cone Drive (Jiangsu) Power Transmission Co., Ltd. | Rollon Ltd. UK |
| Cone Drive Operations Inc. | Rollon S.A.R.L. |
| Cone Drive Operations LTD. | Rollon S.r.l. |
| Damo Srl | Rollon (Suzhou) Manufacturing Co., Ltd. |
| D-C Filtration Holdings Corp. | SARL Beka Lube Algerie |
| Des-Case Acquisition Corporation | Shuton S.L. |
| Des-Case Corporation | SPINEA Deutschland GmbH |
| Des-Case Europe Holding B.V. | SPINEA (Shanghai) Commercial and Trading Co., Ltd. |
| Des-Case Europe SAS | SPINEA, s.r.o. |
| Des-Case Intermediate Holdings Corp. | The Timken Corporation |
| Des-Case (Shanghai) Trading Co., Ltd. | Timken Argentina Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada |
| Diamond Chain China Company Inc. | Timken Aurora Bearing Company |
| Diamond Chain Company, Inc. | Timken Australia Holdings ULC |
| Diamond Chain Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. | Timken Canada GP ULC |
| Diamond-Drives, LLC | Timken (Canada) Holdings II ULC |
| Diamond (Weifang) Power Transmission Co., Ltd. | Timken (Canada) Holdings III ULC |
| Drives Brazil Holdings I, LLC | Timken Canada LP |
| Drives Brazil Holdings II, LLC | Timken (Chengdu) Aerospace and Precision Products Co., Ltd. |
| Durbal Metallwarenfabrik GmbH | Timken Chile SpA |
| GGB Austria GmbH | Timken (China) Investment Co., Ltd. |
| GGB Bearing Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. | Timken Colombia SAS |
| GGB Brasil Industria de Mancais E Componentes Ltda. | Timken De Mexico, S.A. DE C.V. |
| GGB France E.U.R.L. | Timken do Brasil Comercial Importadora Ltda. |
| GGB Heilbronn GmbH | Timken Drives LLC |
| GGB Italy Srl | Timken Egypt LLC |
| GGB LLC | Timken Engineering and Research India Private Limited (TERI) |
| GGB Newco, LLC | Timken Espana, S.L. |
| GGB Real Estate GmbH | Timken Europe |
| GGB Slovakia sro | Timken Europe B.V. |
| GGB Tristar Suisse SA | Timken Gears & Services Inc. |
| GGB U.S. Holdco LLC | Timken GGB India Private Limited |
| Gintec Active Safety Ltd. | Timken Global Treasury S.a.r.l. |
| Groeneveld-Beka Austria GmbH | Timken GmbH |
| Groeneveld-Beka Belgie NV | Timken Holdings LLC |
| Groeneveld-Beka Canada Inc. | Timken (Hong Kong) Holding Limited |
| Groeneveld-Beka France SARL | Timken (Hunan) Bearing Co., Ltd. |
| Groeneveld-BEKA GmbH | Timken India Limited |
| Groeneveld-Beka Iberica | Timken Industrial Services, LLC |
| Groeneveld-Beka Italia S.r.l. | Timken Italia S.r.l. |
| Groeneveld-Beka Limited | Timken Italy Holdings Srl |
| Groeneveld-Beka Pty. Ltd. | Timken Korea Limited Liability Corporation |
| Groeneveld-Beka Sweden AB | Timken Luxembourg Holdings Sarl |
| Groeneveld Groep B.V. | Timken Lux Holdings II Sarl |
| Groeneveld Latin America Ltda | Timken Mex Holdings Sarl |
| Groeneveld Lubrication Solutions Ltd. | Timken Mexico Rodamientos S. de R.L. de C.V. |
| Groeneveld Polska SP z.o.o. | Timken Mex I LLC |
| Groeneveld Solucoes EM Lubrificacao Ltda (fka Groeneveld Comercial E Importadora Ltda) | Timken Mex II LLC |
| Groeneveld Transport Efficiency B.V. | Timken Middle East FZE |
| Groeneveld Transport Efficiency International Holding B.V. | Timken Motors & Services LLC |
| Groeneveld UK Limited (fka Interlube Limited) | Timken Netherlands B.V. |
| Groeneveld USA, Inc. | Timken Netherlands Holdings B.V. |
| Husillos Ipiranga S.L. | Timken Newco Corp. |
| I-MECH ULC | Timken Newco I, LLC |
| Innovative Mechanical Solutions, LLC | Timken Polska SP z.o.o. |
| Interlube Systems Ltd. | Timken PWP Srl |
| Interlube UK Limited | Timken Receivables Corporation |
| J.C.B. Conseils SAS | Timken Representative Office Nigeria Limited |
| Lagersmit Holding B.V. | Timken Romania SA |
| Lagersmit International B.V. | Timken Rulman ve Guc Aktarma Sistemleri Ticaret Limited Sirketi |
| Lagersmit OG B.V. | Timken Service and Sales, LLC |
| Lagersmit Sealing Solutions B.V. | Timken (Shanghai) Distribution and Sales Co., Ltd. |
| Leonardo Srl | Timken Singapore Pte Ltd. |
| Leonardo Top Italy S.r.l. | Timken South Africa Empowerment Trust |
| Lovejoy, LLC | Timken South Africa (Pty) Limited |
| Mac Precision s.r.o. | Timken UK Limited |
| MAW-Maschinenfabrik Wannberg GmbH | Timken U.S. Holdings LLC |
| MPB Corporation | Timken US LLC |
| Nadella GmbH | Timken UWC LLC |
| Nadella Iberica S.L.U. | Timken WUXI Bearings Co., Ltd. |
| Nadella Inc. | Torsion Control Products, Inc. |
| Nadella Linear (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. | Tribochem Lda. |
| Nadella Motion Technology (Changxing) Co., Ltd. | TUBC Limited |
| Nadella Srl | Wazee Crane LLC |
| Nautilus Solutions, LLC | Yantai Timken Co., Ltd. |
Where the PIPL applies, depending on the specific Timken entity in China with which you, or the company or entity you work at or represent, interact in the conduct of business, we will identify the specific Timken entity in China that handles your personal information in the course of your business with Timken as the personal information handler (similar to ādata controllerā under the GDPR) and it shall process your personal information in accordance with this Notice.
This Notice was last updated on September 5, 2024.
